The little misses took their leaves soon after: and I know not how, but I am strangely affected with this dear child.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

He was as near making away with himself, just where the young lady stands, as near could be."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

However Higashi-Kuzé's reply to our letter soon arrived to say that Iwakura's departure was postponed for a day, and that he would see the two secretaries as proposed by them.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

“This fair lady, brother Sancho,” replied the curate, “is no less a personage than the heiress in the direct male line of the great kingdom of Micomicon, who has come in search of your master to beg a boon of him, which is that he redress a wrong or injury that a wicked giant has done her; and from the fame as a good knight which your master has acquired far and wide, this princess has come from Guinea to seek him.” “A lucky seeking and a lucky finding!” said Sancho Panza at this; “especially if my master has the good fortune to redress that injury, and right that wrong, and kill that son of a bitch of a giant your worship speaks of; as kill him he will if he meets him, unless, indeed, he happens to be a phantom; for my master has no power at all against phantoms.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Laton , sb. auricalcum , Prompt., C2; latoun , C3, C, W, WA; latten , Sh., ND, HD.—OF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

1077 Now called Etangs de Leucate, de Sigean, de Gruissan, de Vendres, de Thau, de Maguelonne, de Perols, de Mauguio, du Repausset; Marais d’Escamandre, de Lermitane et de la Souteyrane, and numerous others.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

[4472] No man loves (saith Aristotle 9. mor. cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The fourth river goes out on the opposite side, and falls first of all into a wild and savage region, which is all of a dark-blue colour, like lapis lazuli; and this is that river which is called the Stygian river, and falls into and forms the Lake Styx, and after falling into the lake and receiving strange powers in the waters, passes under the earth, winding round in the opposite direction, and comes near the Acherusian lake from the opposite side to Pyriphlegethon.
— from Phaedo by Plato

So home mightily pleased, and there late at business and set down my three last days’ journalls, and so to bed, overjoyed to thinke of the pleasure of the last Sunday and yesterday, and my ability to bear the charge of these pleasures, and with profit too, by obliging my Lord, and reconciling Sir George Carteret’s family.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She met his look in a kind of fascination, excited by the memory of the story which had been told her, by her own audacity in speaking of it, by the presence of the dead passion she divined lying shrouded and ghastly in the mind of the man beside her.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

She saw that I was dissembling, but looked straight at me cheerfully and simply.
— from The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With so pleasing a view, hemmed in by the haze of the city toward the south, and a hint of the Atlantic south of that, there was every reason why Fay's plot of land should appreciate in value.
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King

He had, indeed, genius, wit, humour, eloquence, rank, wealth and good looks, but because he lacked stability and principles, all his great talents went for nothing.
— from Some Eccentrics & a Woman by Lewis Melville

Their yelps rose to the high bench of land, summoning a horde of coyotes.
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister

It was in the month of December, and at the time I left Susa, at five P.M. , the snow was falling so thickly that by the time I had completed half the ascent, the road or track was completely obliterated.
— from Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching by M. E. (Martin E.) Haworth

It was the woman that, among other things, was great with my cozen Barnston, of Cottenham, and did use to sing to him, and did teach me "Full forty times over," a very lewd song: a woman they are very well acquainted with, and is here what she was at Cambridge, and all the good fellows of the country come hither.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 58: October 1667 by Samuel Pepys

It makes a fine curve like the letter S, and by this it displays to advantage the magnificent residences that line it.
— from The Mentor: Venice, the Island City, Vol. 1, Num. 27, Serial No. 27 by Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) Elmendorf